Romola Garai Quotes & Sayings

“I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.”

“I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.”

“If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.”

“Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.”

“I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.”

“Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.”

“I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.”

“I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.”

“My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.”

“Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.”